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I saw the website last night and I thought it was cool but the question was "What is that all about"? When you mentioned it's a possible competitor to CB, then I understand the implications. I took one look at CB and ditched it. Joomlapolis was good but outdated. So KickApps has great potential. Thanks for the one sentence explaination.

Hey Steve,

Thanks for pointing this out. Very interesting. However, I would like to see a more thorough review of this product. I can see a lot of benefit in going this route for building your community, but at first glance, I can also see some setbacks.

For one thing, CB is truly integrated into Joomla!. Your content is on your site and not in some widget that pulls content from the KickApps server. I'm curious if that might have an adverse effect on SEO. Also, with CB, you have full access to the source code, so you can customize it until you are satisfied. With KickApps, you have some great tools, but you are limited by what they make available to you.

Overall, I would say KickApps seems to be a great solution for anyone wanting this type of functionality, but I would not go as far as to say it is a viable alternative to CB in all cases.

Thanks again for sharing this. I will definitely have to look into it further.

Right Corry! I thought about these kinds of solutions few months ago when I discovered them (they are quite a bunch of them, pretty smartly done), but I came to the same point that what about the control we all have, cherish and have enjoyed with Joomla & extensions.
This made me think about the sense to be given to 'Open source matters' as time is going, Joomla and its brothers evolving, maturing, and... becoming less open than ever.

I had to smile when I heard few months ago that Google was entitled to develop it's own Wiki.Sadly smile of course.
When will it be the time for Joomla, Drupal, and consors, considering that eZ Publish have made the
move far beyond, even if the core is OS, what doesn't prevent it to take a foot in the Big Industry.

There are more and more folks in the 'Techies-innovators-VCs' that are probably reviewing scenarii of such a TAKE OVER!

Believe me, it will come sooner than you can imagine for a simple reason: THE MORE Joomla, Drupal and consors are going to be powerful containers, the quicker the move will be.

Would you bet for that?